Professional training of the future pedagogical workers in the field of preschool education for working with children in the different age group

Abstract

In the article the model of training future preschool education specialists to work with children in different age groups is representatived. The importance of preparing future educators to work with preschoolers in different age groups is substantiated. It is explained that today the process of consolidation of educational institutions has place and, accordingly, the unification of groups in preschool institutions is so popular. In rural areas there are mostly groups with children of different age because there is too the small number of children and the decline in birth rates. The works of modern scientists about the researched problem are analyzed in the article. It is explained that the concept of «modeling» is broad and insufficiently concretized. It is established that the principles of modeling and planning specifically reflect, on the one hand, the principles of management, and on the other the features of planning as the preliminary stage and function of the management process. The author's model of professional training of future educators to the work in different age groups is based on the ideas of the personal activity, resource and integration approaches to pedagogical activity of students. The developed experimental model of the preparation of future educators for the work in different age groups covers the following components: purpose and tasks, approaches to pedagogical activity of students, stages, pedagogical conditions of the professional preparation of future educators for work in different age groups, indicators and levels.  It is said that the educational process must be based on the integration of the academic disciplines with the disciplines of methodological and practical training. The three stages of training future preschool education specialists are shown. The ways for the improving of the professional training of future educators to work with preschoolers in groups where there are children of different ages study are presented.